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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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cantabb - 01:06pm Oct 5, 2003 EST (# 14324 of 14328)

rshow55 - 08:20am Oct 5, 2003 EST (# 14321 of 14322)

I think Lchic is a treasure - a world asset. She makes the world both more beautiful, and clearer. [emphasis added]

Nice of you to let us know what you think of your esteemed collaborator --one more time.

We're facing some clear problems - and some were discussed in the Week in Review today.

Yes, we know. Anything on MD ?

rshow55 - 08:22am Oct 5, 2003 EST (# 14322 of 14322)

I think this thread has been very useful - and on Missile Defense .

"Very useful" to whom ? You think on MD ? How, specifically ?

But another major subject has been journalistic practice. This article raises an interesting question.

Leaks and the Courts: There's Law, but Little Order By ADAM LIPTAK http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/weekinreview/05LIPT.html

If they subpoenaed Mr. Novak, for instance, a court would very likely order him to testify. .......What if the issue is an unwillingness of reporters to reveal who they are?

Nothing to do with MD, directly, is it !

I've broken my promises to Eisenhower and others - I promised that I would never, under any circumstances, reveal my relationship with Eisenhower except face to face to a proper authority. The time finally came where it seemed to me that, to keep faith with the things I promised Eisenhower I'd try to do, I had to break that promise. Perhaps I simply ran out of strength. Was that cheating ?

Your uncorrobrated personal/professional activities in areas unrelated to MD have absolutely NOTHING to do with the Forum. Your harping on it here constantly seems ridiculous at best. More self referencing, as you keep doing constantly as here again, to uncorroborated claims does NOT amount to any evidence or relevance to MD.

I broke my promise here: .......A lot of people were outraged by that - but I tried, and others tried, to do it in ways that were unusual, but were not cheating.

So ?

Some more hopping from topic to topic, ALL unrelated to MD.

Some adjusting seems worth it..........

Internal consistency and what can be checked are different. I'm not backing down on my story about my relationship with Eisenhower - and don't feel any obligation to do so.

I was selected to work on problems that former President Eisenhower felt, and others felt, were of essential national interest - and difficult. Muddled as it is - I think this board has made some headway - though it is "just a game."

Nash did a lot of work about games. We need to learn to play some games better - if peace in the world is to be possible.

Forget your Nash complex !

Some of those "games" involve journalistic practice - in a world > where exception handling mechanisms are often necessary.

Suggestion: search "News and the Culture of Lying"

Just your disjoint incoherent slop of NO relevance.

Continued abuse of Forum.......

bluestar23 - 01:08pm Oct 5, 2003 EST (# 14325 of 14328)

The only way this Forum can return to normal is to get rid of this maniac showalter.... rshow55......

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